This is by a long way the worst thread I’ve ever seen on hacker news.

So far all the comments are whataboutism (“he works for an ad company”, “he flies to conferences”, “but alfalfa beans!”) and your comment is dismissing Rob Pike as borderline crazy and irrational for using Bluesky?

None of this dialogue contributes in any meaningful way to anything. This is like reading the worst dredge of lesser forums.

I know my comment isn’t much better, but someone has to point out this is beneath this community.

Yes, generational AI has a high environmental footprint. Power hungry data centers, devices built on planned obsolescence, etc. At a scale that is irrational.

Rob Pike created a language that makes you spend less on compute if you are coming from Python, Java, etc. That's good for the environment. Means less energy use and less data center use. But he is not an environmental saint.

And you're being purely rational with your love of AI. Sure. Blame everything you dislike on irrationality.

well said